05 Morris Lane - Blue Jeans

5 Morris Lane & His Orchestra– Blue Jeans 2:17

Morris Lane & His Orchestra, March 13, 1951
Morris Lane - tenor sax, remainder unknown


The four MORRIS LANE sides were once issued on a 45 EP and have held up rather well. Lane was Cobb's replacement in the 1947 Lionel Hampton Band, later worked with Earl Hines, Paul Gayten, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Singleton. His work here is bluesy but not overly so, and apart from a couple of spots on "Blue Jeans" there is little reference to R & B. One question about Lane that lingers is whether he could be the Morris Lounds who appears on one of Miss Rhapsody's Savoy dates. There are similarities of style. He dies in Gary, Indiana, May 1967.